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From Jail House to the Texas House: Texas Salon Owner Shelley Luther, Who Was Jailed During COVID, Wins Texas State House Seat from Dallas



Texas salon owner Shelley Luther broke the state quarantine in April 2020 to save her business and feed her children.

Shelley was later served a citation from the city of Dallas the following morning for breaking state stay-at-home policies.

At a rally that day SHE RIPPED IT UP during her speech!

Shelley Luther wanted to save her business and the Texas economy. She told the crowd at the rally, “We have a right to run a business and feed our children.”

A large crowd gathered to support her. ...

A week later Shelley Luther was sentenced to 7 days in jail and a $7,000 fine by another radical Obama judge.
Shelley refused to apologize to the liberal judge for opening her business.

The local authorities punished Shelley for wanting to save her business.
Shelley was ordered to jail for her defiance. ...

On Tuesday Shelley Luther won a seat in the Texas House of Representatives.

Patrick says

On Tuesday Shelley Luther won a seat in the Texas House of Representatives.

Congratulations to Texans who voted for her.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

https://bherr.substack.com/p/the-gutenberg-bible-election-moment

The election of Donald Trump to President of the United States and the subsequent weeks have been the most honest and authentic cultural moments of my lifetime - and probably yours too. It’s now over two weeks since the election, and I’m still shaking my head in wonder and awe.

I wouldn’t consider myself a cynical person. I’m a realist. Generally cautiously optimistic about all things in life. It takes a lot to impress me and make me hopeful, but that’s mostly because I manage my expectations really well. I understand humans and our nature at a pretty advanced level, if I do say so myself.

In the last 8 years (culminating with the height of Covid), along with you, I have watched western culture evolve into something nearly unrecognizable and unimaginable. The march towards - and then straight into - dystopia has been horrifying and disheartening, to put it mildly. At some fundamental level, I had (maybe still do) resigned myself to the fact that I was going to end up in some gulag or ministry subbasement next to Winston from 1984 sooner rather than later because I’m unwilling to bend the knee to totalitarianism and insanity. I’m a free man and I’ll die a free man, even if I’m in chains. ...

My conclusion is that the power of longform conversations won. Imagine that. The strongest ideas, debated hotly out in the open for all to see and wrestle intelligently with, won the day. Transparency, honesty, vulnerability, and a relentless willingness to truly discuss hard subjects as a society won. ...

One by one, you and I began to make some decisions we never thought we’d have to make.

We began to say “no” a whole lot more, even if it made us sad or highly uncomfortable.

We DID engage in that important conversation rather than keep our mouths shut - again.

We armed ourselves - with real ammo, yes, but also with intellectual and factual ammunition.

We went to a school board meeting or a local town hall for the first time in our lives.

We started a business or a podcast or…a Substack.

Like soldiers in the fox hole, we began to collectively poke our heads over the threshold. It was terrifying and foreign to many of us. And something amazing happened when we did.

“Well, I think life is precious because you can't watch it again. I mean, you can believe in an afterlife if that makes you feel better. Doesn't mean it's true. But once you realize you're not gonna be around forever, I think that's what makes life so magical. One day you'll eat your last meal, smell your last flower, hug your friend for the very last time. You might not know it's the last time, so that's why you should do everything you love with passion, you know? Treasure the few years you've got because that's all there is.” ― Ricky Gervais

A Virginia pilot devoted to rescuing shelter dogs was killed when a small plane crashed in the Catskills on Sunday as he was flying several dogs up for adoption to an upstate animal shelter. Father of three Seuk Kim, 49, was killed Sunday alongside one of three dogs he was flying from Maryland to Albany to be adopted as part of his work with a not-for-profit group that transports rescue animals from overcrowded shelters to places they are more likely to find a home. A labrador-mix puppy named Whiskey, who suffered broken bones, and an 18-month-old yorkie terrier mix named Pluto both survived the crash, according to the nonprofit Kim was delivering the dogs to, the Animal Shelter of Schoharie County.

RIP Bro

gabbar says

A Virginia pilot devoted to rescuing shelter dogs was killed when a small plane crashed in the Catskills on Sunday as he was flying several dogs up for adoption to an upstate animal shelter. Father of three Seuk Kim, 49, was killed Sunday alongside one of three dogs he was flying from Maryland to Albany to be adopted as part of his work with a not-for-profit group that transports rescue animals from overcrowded shelters to places they are more likely to find a home

Know cause of crash? I know I could probably look it up. I know that's not the photo of the flight for the crash, but three dogs uncaged in that size plane is a recipe for disaster. Especially rescue dogs that you don't know their behavior.

Fly on a plane approaching cruising altitude. Listen to all the really little kids start screaming at 5-10k ft altitude to get to cruising altitude. Ears popping made the headphone business billions so people didn't have to listen to kids crying due to pressure while flying.

I'm sure at a ~9k cruising altitude for that sized plane, not pressurized, it probably messed with the dogs ears and they went ape shit. A good act, but not the best idea as a single pilot. You need a ride along or copilot with loose dogs in the cabin. Unfortunately dogs kill drivers of cars frequently as well. You gotta crate them or wall them off in the back. They're still animals and anything could spook them at a moments notice.

I know it's a positive thread, but mentioning how not to die in a plane or car I think is a positive.

Patrick says

Kawalski - Analysis?

Taleb sounds like a Stoic.

gabbar says

This dude is a micro-legend

Total inspiration. Parents must be proud AF

Patrick says

Taleb sounds like a Stoic.

Yes.

"For so many, instead of looking for “cause of death” when they expire, we should be looking for “cause of life” when they are still around". - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

Guardians of Being by Eckhart Tolle (free download). Particularly, useful for those who are into pets, gardening....or life.

https://archive.org/details/Guardians_of_Being_Eckhart_Tolle

Gabor Mate

I lived in a very small town in Wisconsin for a few years. I used to get haircuts in WalMart located outside the town. There was a young woman I used to prefer because she was polite. Her husband worked in the automotive section of that WalMart. One day, as she was cutting my hair, she says, we adopted a girl. She already had a child of her own. I was stunned to hear that, the courage and the kindness it takes to commit to the responsibility to raise someone else's child. Hope she is doing well.

The 9 year old in the above post is Remi Bateman from Utah.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

That was a common tactic during the Depression.

Waddya supposed to 'learn' from fake history?

Ideology is not our friend. Where is it writ in adamantine that semi-carnivorous monkeys can or should be capable ot understanding reality?

That seems to me one of the first illusions, and one of the more prideful illusions of human culture. Better to try and frame questions which can do it and leave off searching for answers, because answers are like operating systems; they are being upgraded faster than you can keep up with it. If we go back a long ways in time, the universe is a very simple place. There are no cultures, there are no animals, there are no plants. Indeed, if we go far enough back in time, there are no stars and planets. The universe is simply a swarming ocean of energy.

But as we approach the present it’s as though the universe has undergone a series of crystallizations out of itself of higher and higher forms of organization. And this is what I call novelty. Now, there is a retardant force, and I call it habit—to keep it away from concepts like thermodynamic entropy. Habit. And so, in my model of the way things work—gleaned from observation; stoned and unstoned—is that the cosmos, your life, the politics of this city, the history of Western civilization, is a struggle between habit and novelty.

Habit is also an intuitively graspable concept. It means conservatism, recidivism, doing things the traditional way, not taking chances. And these things are not moral values. Sometimes the right move is habitual, sometimes the right move is novel. But the universe, as a system, is what I call a novelty-conserving engine. In other words, where novelty is produced it tends to be tenaciously hung onto. It can’t always be hung onto, but it is tenaciously hung onto.

Well, why should culture imprison us and somehow place a barrier between ourselves and our true humanness? Well, I think I said at the beginning of this thing: culture and ideology are not your friends. They are not your friends. This is a hard thing to come to terms with, because a certain kind of alienation lies at the end of this thought process. On the other hand, you can’t live in the cradle forever. You can’t be clueless forever. So somebody might as well just lay it out for you and say culture is for the convenience of culture, not you. How many times have your sexual desires, career aspirations, financial dealings, and aesthetic inclinations been squashed, twisted, rejected, and minimized by cultural values? And if you don’t think culture is your enemy, ask the 18-year-old kid who is given a rifle and sent to the other side of the world to murder strangers if culture is his friend. These extreme examples should bring it home to us that it’s a kind of a con game.

It is, in fact, strangely enough, a kind of virtual reality. We have been led to think of virtual realities as something on the screen of a computer, or presented through a headset, but that’s an electronic virtual reality. The primary technology for the building of virtual realities is language. Once you start talking about race pride, loyalty, our destiny, our God, our mission, it’s like building virtual realities. And people begin to treat these things as though they had the substantiality of real objects, and to build their lives as though these things were real.

And what is this? It’s a diminution of humanness. You’re choosing to limit yourself to a cultural reality—whether it’s the reality of being Witoto, or Orthodox Jewish, or whatever it is. It’s a smaller world than the simple hardware you were born into this universe with. And the substances—the drugs, the plants, the things which perturb consciousness—they don’t address cultural values, they blast through them. They address the animal body, the mammalian brain. They perturb these information fields outside of the relativistic set of values that culture is giving you.

- Terrence McKenna, Culture and Ideology Are Not Your Friends, April, 1999

gabbar says

Where is it writ in adamantine that semi-carnivorous monkeys can or should be capable ot understanding reality?

Not a good start for a lecture on reality. Humans are apes, not monkeys.

Gabbar. You pulled an Ohomen here. Not trying to be negative, but paragraph breaks are nice for ease of reading.

WookieMan says

Gabbar. You pulled an Ohomen here. Not trying to be negative, but paragraph breaks are nice for ease of reading.

You are correct. I tried to fix it. I collect quotes, I have nearly 1000 pages of them so far. Just copied and pasted it instead of dividing into paragraphs.

@gabbar

“Well, why should culture imprison us and somehow place a barrier between ourselves and our true humanness? Well, I think I said at the beginning of this thing: culture and ideology are not your friends. They are not your friends. This is a hard thing to come to terms with, because a certain kind of alienation lies at the end of this thought process. On the other hand, you can’t live in the cradle forever. You can’t be clueless forever. So somebody might as well just lay it out for you and say culture is for the convenience of culture, not you. […]

Once you start talking about race pride, loyalty, our destiny, our God, our mission, it’s like building virtual realities. And people begin to treat these things as though they had the substantiality of real objects, and to build their lives as though these things were real. And what is this? It’s a diminution of humanness. You’re choosing to limit yourself to a cultural reality—[…] It’s a smaller world than the simple hardware you were born into this universe with.”

Yes, I would have agreed with this general sense of overcoming cultures to seek truth, humanness, and oneness back when it was written. The past is a foreign country in a way, and the culture Terrence McKenna was immersed ca 1999 was under no external threat. Not from war and especially not from replacement levels of immigration, coupled with hostile media. He’s right — stoics and mystics have thrown off culture to seek higher truths since the first writings of the Greeks, and almost certainly before.

However we’re also chained to our biology. We yearn for truth, but we also yearn on a biological level for a continuation of our genetic legacy. Culture helps us do that, until it’s hijacked (as ours has been the last 15 years) into teaching that trannies are women, white children are a sign of racist parents, and replacement immigration is necessary. It turns out, the culture of McKenna’s 1990’s (and before) was far more positive for family formation and continuation of genetics than whatever we have now. A benign culture enables the higher seeking. A hostile culture keeps us focused on the venal.

goofus says

Culture helps us do that, until it’s hijacked (as ours has been the last 15 years) into teaching that trannies are women, white children are a sign of racist parents, and replacement immigration is necessary. It turns out, the culture of McKenna’s 1990’s (and before) was far more positive for family formation and continuation of genetics than whatever we have now. A benign culture enables the higher seeking. A hostile culture keeps us focused on the venal.

Why are our countrymen doing to this? Is it because they want to stay in power by destabilizing our society?

https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1883981748251554218

Cats were donated to a prison for the inmates instead of being euthanized. Good idea.

Nursing homes should all have dogs as well. When my mother was in a nursing home dying from a brain tumor, I noticed that someone brought in a dog and all the elderly patients really cheered up. Dog liked it too.